Wisconsin

Man arrested over 66 pounds of marijuana in Madison storage locker

A Madison man faces marijuana possession charges after DeForest police found 66 pounds of pot and a stolen gun in a storage locker he was renting, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Saturday on its website.

Wilson Talbot Jr., 66, was taken into custody Feb. 1 after DeForest police and members of the Dane County Drug Task Force executed a search warrant for the storage locker in Madison.

Police were led to the locker by a drug-sniffing dog involved in an unrelated investigation, said the Madison paper. The pot had a street value of $234,500, it reported.

"Because the locker is within 1,000 feet of a community center, Talbot was tentatively charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana within 1,000 feet of certain places, a felony, and three counts of possession of a handgun by a felon, also a felony," the paper's website reported.